TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

The Tonic of Tonics—Oat Malt Stout. (Ad.) The steamer Port Hardy radios that she will arrive from London on Thursday next. Two more'aeroplane crashes in England have involved the deaths of two R.AT. officers. The recent Egmont steeplechase meeting showed a totalisator decrease of £10,020. The Mississippi River at Xew Orleans has made a surprising rise of 4ft durinc the hist 48 hours. Sales on 'Change to-day: English and Scottish Bank £8 8/6, Northern Steam 13/9, Taranaki Oil (forward) 10/. Nicola Katrani, a young Yugoslav, was sent to gaol to-day for four months for vagrancy and being found unlawfully on the Marauia. The annual conference of the New Zealand Dental Association opens in Wellington to-morrow, and will continue till Friday. A crowd of 40,000 made a demonstration in front of the British Mission Building in Moscow as a protest against the London raid on Arcos, Ltd. The Berlin Stock Exchange experienced a "black Friday," when an enormous slump in the value of shares resulted in the loss of many huge private fortunes. A London newspaper states that the main reason for the raid on Soviet House in London was that important War Office documents had mysteriously disappeared. Two officers of the Royal Air Force, one a New Zealander, Lieutenant Carr, are attempting a non-stop record flight of 4000 miles from England to Karachi The Czecho-Slovakian Soccer team defeated. South Australia on Saturday by two goals to one, and New South Wales beat the Chinese Soccer team by 6 to 3. * At a meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Inglis and Marsh, road contractors, a creditor offered to sell a £400 debt for 1/ in the £, but no buyers. A portion of the Great South Road between EUerslie and Penrose will be closed to-morrow for a month or six weeks to enable road improvements to be carried out. Despite the heavy weather on Saturday, the bulk of the sporting fixtures were carried out, and the conditions were responsible for surprises in some football matches. Owing to the production of a telegram which was received by the victim of the trunk murder mystery, Scotland Yard is searching for a man who was recently released from gaoL Captain Giles, an Australian air force officer, has arrived at San Francisco en route to Vancouver to take part in a projected seaplane flight from Vancouver to Sydney, in June. It is expected the crest of the Mississippi flood will have passed into the Gulf of Mexico within a few days, when it will be possible to start the work of rehabilitation of the stricken valley. In connection with the theory that the missing airman, Captain Nungesser, may have made a forced-descent in Labrador, a forester working in that region has stated that he heard the noise of a crash in the forest and an explosion. ( A new bird, the turken, a cross between a turkey and a Rhode Island hen, and which, it is said, will effect a revolution in the poultry business, has been raised in Canada. *It has a hen's body and a turkey's head. The New Zealand cricketers opened their first match against a first-class county on Saturday, when they compiled 289 against Essex, a strong bowling combination. A feature of the innings was the hatting of the colts, Mills (64) and Merritt (49 not out). At stumps Essex had lost two for 57 runs. Doctors refer sufferers from neuritis to Andrews, Pacific- Buildings, because the relief is almost immediate.—(Ad). Want a bargain? Inspect the 3d to 10/ window at either of David Silk's 2 Jewellery Stores, Queen St. —(Ad.) Wingate'e have blades for every kind of safety razor. Prices right. The Cutlery House, opp. G.P.O.— (Ad.) Afternoon tea set. Teapot, sugar and cream. English made; silver-plated on nickel silver; good quality. Usual price, 60/, central bargain priced 27/6 at David Silk's 2 Jewellery Stores, Queen Street. (Ad.)